Improvement in bird-cage mats



h m cam ISA-AG A. SINGER OF NEW YORK. N, Y.

7 Letters Patent No. 113,461, dated April 4, 1871.

lI VIPROVEMENT IN BIRD-CAGE MATS.

' The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent. and making part ofthe same.

1, Isaac A. SINGER, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain Improvements in Mats for Bird-Gages, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

. My invention relates to mats to be placed in the bottoms of cages forbirds, and consists in certain improvementsupon the improvement inpaperfor use in the bottoms of birdrcages, forwhich Letters Patent of theUnited States were granted to Jasper H. Singer February 7, 1871.

My improvement consists in the combination, with cloth or other fibrousmaterial, of bird-seed or other food, attached thereto by means of afarinaceous paste, and either with or without theadmixture of sand orgravel, for the purpose of furnishingto the birds an additionalinducement to pick and scratch upon the mat,substantially as hereinafterset forth.

Second, the combination, with gravel or food and a farinaceous paste orcement, of cloth, either felted or woven, and either with or withoutpaper attached thereto, for the purpose of preventing the birds frompicking the mat to pieces, substantially as hereinafter set forth,

General Description,

, 'forming the upper surface, by its toughness prevents the birds frompicking it to pieces, as they might do to some'extent if this uppersurface of the base of the mat were paper instead of cloth. It alsoprevents the mat from being destroyed by the water which may be thrownupon it by the birds. g It is obvious, however, that theiadvantage lastmen tioned would .be realized by making the base of the mat of clothalone and attaching to it the gravel or food in the manner statedpandthis latter construction I may be adopted where the flexibility of thethat so constructed would not be auobje'ction,

The combination of the food-with'the mat, as above described, has thejadvauta'ge of causing the birds to pick and scratch more nponth e matfor the purpose of obtaining this food, and furnishes them an additionalinducement'to healthful-7 exercise. v

In general I prefer tofl'combi'ne fine; gravel with bird-seed or othersuitable food, in equal or any other proportions that may be deemeddesirable or suit the. choice of the'us ers. Y

I A Claims I claim as my invention-'- 1. The combination, in a mat forbird-cages, of cloth or other fibrous material, bird-seed, eithermixedwith sand or gravel or not, and a'farinaceous paste or cement,substantially as hereinafter set forth.

2. The combinatiomin a mat for bird-cag'es,"of felt, or woven cloth,either pasted upon paper or not, sand or gravel, or bird-seed or otherfood, and 'farinaceous paste. or cement, substantially as hereinbeforeset ISAAC A. SINGER.

Witnesses:

Tuos. P. How, WM. A. Dounnm'.

